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'''Bengali''' is the most eastern [[Indo-Aryan language]] from [[South Asia]]. It developed from a language called [[Pali]]. | '''Bengali''' is the most eastern [[Indo-Aryan language]] from [[South Asia]]. It developed from a language called [[Pali]]. | ||
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Almost all of the people in Bangladesh speak Bengali, and many famous [[book]]s and [[poem]]s are written in Bengali. [[Rabindranath Tagore]] was a famous poet who wrote in Bengali. Tagore won the [[Nobel Prize]] in [[Literature]]. The national anthems of both [[India]] and [[Bangladesh]] were written in this language.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mofa.gov.bd/statements/fm39.htm|title=Statement by Hon'ble Foreign Minister on Second Bangladesh-India Track II dialogue at BRAC Centre on 07 August, 2005|accessdate=2008-05-27|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs, [[Government of Bangladesh]]|archive-date=2008-04-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080418063436/http://www.mofa.gov.bd/statements/fm39.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> | Almost all of the people in Bangladesh speak Bengali, and many famous [[book]]s and [[poem]]s are written in Bengali. [[Rabindranath Tagore]] was a famous poet who wrote in Bengali. Tagore won the [[Nobel Prize]] in [[Literature]]. The national anthems of both [[India]] and [[Bangladesh]] were written in this language.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mofa.gov.bd/statements/fm39.htm|title=Statement by Hon'ble Foreign Minister on Second Bangladesh-India Track II dialogue at BRAC Centre on 07 August, 2005|accessdate=2008-05-27|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs, [[Government of Bangladesh]]|archive-date=2008-04-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080418063436/http://www.mofa.gov.bd/statements/fm39.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> | ||
Bengali has developed over the course of more than 1,300 years. [[Bengali literature]], with its millennium-old literary history, has extensively developed since the [[Bengali Renaissance]] and is one of the most prolific and diverse literary traditions in Asia. The [[Bengali language movement]] from 1948 to 1956 demanding Bengali to be an official language of Pakistan fostered [[Bengali nationalism]] in [[East Bengal]]<!--Please note, the province was called "East Bengal," not "East Pakistan," at the time, during the Bengali Language Movement.--> leading to the emergence of Bangladesh in 1971. In 1999, [[UNESCO]] recognised [[Language Movement Day|21 February]] as [[International Mother Language Day]] in recognition of the language movement.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0011/001177/117709E.pdf|title=Amendment to the Draft Programme and Budget for 2000–2001 (30 C/5)|year=1999|work=General Conference, 30th Session, Draft Resolution|publisher=UNESCO|access-date=27 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521161342/http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0011/001177/117709E.pdf|archive-date=21 May 2011|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID%3D28672%26URL_DO%3DDO_TOPIC%26URL_SECTION%3D201.html|title=Resolution adopted by the 30th Session of UNESCO's General Conference (1999)|work=International Mother Language Day|publisher=UNESCO|access-date=27 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080601025416/http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID%3D28672%26URL_DO%3DDO_TOPIC%26URL_SECTION%3D201.html|archive-date=1 June 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Bengali language is the quintessential element of Bengali identity and binds together a [[Culture of Bengal|culturally diverse]] region. | |||
== References == | == References == | ||